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BCPD apprehends RDs for smoking marijuana
By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
Three residence hall directors (RDs) resigned Friday in the wake of an investigation by the Office of Residential Life after they were allegedly caught smoking marijuana earlier in the week by a resident assistant, a source told The Heights.
Volunteers collect over $23,000 for Katrina victims
By Lai-Yan Tang / Heights Senior Staff
Saturday's game was about a lot more than football for the more than one hundred volunteers who rallied together to raise over $23,000 for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Armed with matching T-shirts and buckets, they set out two-by-two across campus, throughout tailgating areas and at the entrances to Alumni Stadium, to offer every fan an opportunity to donate.
By Kevin Armstrong / Heights Senior Staff
The atmosphere surrounding Boston College's inaugural football game in the Atlantic Coast Conference was raised to an even crazier level Sunday as ESPN officials announced that the College GameDay crew will be on campus this Saturday. ESPN's wildly popular college football pregame show will be broadcast live from BC from 10:30 a.
By Lai-Yan Tang / Heights Senior Staff
Boston College continues to fluctuate in the U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges," falling to 40th in the 2006 issue, released last month. In the past four years, BC has alternated from 38th, 40th, and 37th before returning to 40th this year.
By Kyle Smeallie / Heights Senior Staff
As the Eagles enter the increased competition of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), they are looking for both players and fans to step it up. In an effort to get the stadium packed at kickoff, the athletic department has adopted a new policy allowing fans to enter the tailgating areas two and a half hours prior to game time.
By Kyle Smeallie / Heights Senior Staff
Due to an error in the space management process, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) resource center will not be opening this fall. Officials from the GLBT Leadership Council (GLC) have been meeting with administrators and have tentatively planned a short-term space to be opening within the next month.
By Lai-Yan Tang / Heights Senior Staff
After five years of being ranked as homophobic by the Princeton Review, Boston College is off the "Alternative lifestyle not an alternative (low acceptance of gay community)" list. The rankings, which come from student surveys available at schools or online, were recently released in the Princeton Review's 361 Best Colleges: 2006 Edition.
By Carolyn Mattus / Height Senior Staff
It's football season. The air is crisp, the burgers are on the grill, and the beers are on ice for that buzz right before the game. But maybe that buzz isn't enough so you take a Coke can and fill it with some rum. It's an unassuming can of soda; no one will ever know what's really in it, right?
Bureau chief looks at state of U.S., Middle East, perceptions
By Dave Benoit / Heights Senior Staff
With the nation's attempts at peace in Iraq, relations between the Middle East and the West remain uncertain, a topic explored by Salameh Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Hayat, International Arab Daily, a newspaper based in London, and the Lebanon-Based Arab Satellite Channel (LBC).
By Mark I. Pinsky
If only history class were like this: The professor looking more than a little like actor Kevin Bacon stalks in, animated, enthusiastic, and dramatic. He is wearing a pith helmet and bush jacket, one of several costumes he will don and doff during his lecture, accessorizing each with matching accents and languages.
By Shawna Gallagher Vega / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
I'm a senior, and I like to reminisce sometimes. About my first tour of Boston College, for instance, when Campanella Way was a big hole next to the Higgins staircase. Or when St. Ignatius Gate was being built, offering the sweet sounds of early morning construction to those of us who lived in Walsh.
By Lai-Yan Tang / Heights Senior Staff
In what has become an annual tradition, the senior administrators of Boston College held an open meeting for students Thursday night to address goals for the new year and to answer concerns from the students. Luke Howe, president of the Undergraduate Government of BC (UGBC) and CSOM '06, helped open the evening with a reflection of his time at BC and his ideas for the future.

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